I learned about the history of Go Fuck Yourself today
 

On NPR they were talking the show deadwood and how the cursing is not actual for the times but the words that were curses back then would be laughable today. They also talked about people didnt start using the word Fuck as a swear word until 1900 and the term Go Fuck Yourself didnt enter our language in the 1920's.

FUCK was used back in the England a long time ago. Back then you basically needed permission to have sex. So when you went to get laid you would put a sign on the door that read FUCK. It stood for Fornication Under Consent of King. If they gave you that, you were in the clear. If you were caught with out it, you were fucked. haha

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I thought it was For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

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cool info, I always wondered where that word came from

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The word "fuck" did not originate as an acronym. It crept, fully formed, into the English language from Dutch or Low German around the 15th century ? it's impossible to say precisely when because so little documentary evidence exists, probably due to the fact that the word was so taboo throughout its early history that people were afraid to write it down. (The American Heritage Dictionary says its first known occurrence in English literature was in the satirical poem, "Flen, Flyss" (c.1500), where it was both disguised as a Latin word and encrypted ? "gxddbov," deciphered as "fuccant," pseudo-Latin for "they fuck.")

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That is what I thought too.

The earliest reference appears to be the name 'John Le Fucker', which John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins dates to 1278. What John did to earn this name is unknown.


Its first known use as a verb meaning to fornicate is in a poem titled Flen flyys some time before 1500. Written half in English and half in Latin, the poem includes the word "fuccant", a hybrid of English root with Latin conjugation, disguised in the text by a simple code.



William Dunbar's 1503 poem Brash of Wowing includes the lines: "Yit be his feiris he wald haif fukkit:/ Ye brek my hairt, my bony ane."



While Shakespeare never used the term explicitly, he may have hinted at it in comic scenes in several plays. The Merry Wives of Windsor (IV.i) contains focative case (see vocative case). In Henry V (IV.iv), Pistol threatens to firk (strike) a soldier, a euphemism for fuck.